(Original title: À la place du coeur)
“Clim and Bébé have grown up together in a blue-collar neighbourhood in Marseilles. When Bébé is eighteen and Clim is sixteen, they fall in love. She becomes pregnant, and the situation is welcomed with surprise and joy from their working class families. But on a bad day, Bébé is unjustly accused of rape by a racist cop and he is arrested. The families of the two must now fight to disprove the unfounded accusation.” – IMDB
France, 1998, Robert Guédiguian. Comedy/Drama/Romance, 1hr 53mins (15)
Presented as the Chiltern Film Club